A daily dose of real science impacting our lives or our futures and never disappoints. What more could you ask for?

This show is always fantastic! Love getting such great science stories in little snips

Love the topics, length, and reporting! Really appreciate that these short form stories exist compared to the usual 40-50min long episodes of my other favorite podcasts!

I just wanted you all to know there’s still plenty of love out in the community for people in science! Alison Schuback

Great show! Lively, engaging, and smart.

The little girl voices oohing over “hard” or “new” basic scientific words is nauseating. I’ve finally had enough.

What is up with the music during the dialogue? Why don you guys find the compulsion to play it? It’s distracting and detracts from the dialogue. I often find myself focusing on the music as the main part and the dialogue becomes background noise, especially when the guest speaker is not loud and clear and English is not the first language. Please stop the music during dialogue! And please stop playing that infuriating, and odious “space music” whenever there’s a show about the cosmos; don’t need it. The cosmos is mesmerizing enough on its own. Just let the dialogue overwhelm the ears with crisp, clear, loud, vociferous sounds. For example, with the Something you should know podcast, or Money Matters with Ken Moraif podcast. Learn from those!!!

From this ‘Short Wave’ episode of the Volvos and how their oxytocin help them to pair with another (preciously, regardless of interference), there are times I feel I experience slight too often, but at such rate it teaches you things if you pay really close attention to whatever episode you may encounter. It disciplines you, and at same is very much appreciative. - s.jxn - ga

Great delivery of science-oriented facts and education for the non-professional in a quick 10-15 minutes. a wide range of topics. a good balance between serious info with just a touch of humor or silliness.

“Short Wave” is a scientific podcast that brings a different perspective to complex topics. Both hosts, Emily and Regina, can share these difficult ideas with the listener using a casual and fun language that even kids will enjoy. Having listened to some of their episodes, I can assure you that they will make you want to research more about anything that was talked during the 15-minute episode.

I love this podcast, every night I listen to it. This podcast is about every thing science usually after they spend some time researching. I highly recommend you listen to this podcast if you are interested in science and want to learn.

This is a great podcast. So much information! They answer interesting questions and is really entertaining and captivating. There is videos that are actually worth listening to and are full of really cool and engaging information.Thank you!

Worth listening to

"In pop culture, squirrels are often seen as jerky"

What a treat to hear Maddie Sofia’s voice for Christmas/Hanukkah. Thanks for this and happy holidays.

As stated above…dumb questions and dumb reactions…

The double speak is nauseating. 2+2=5 don’t you understand? Tell me you understand 2+2=5 say it. Say it now! Ridiculous hosting.

This is a great podcast!! I’m only 13 and I love science and learning all these little factoids. I’m not a nerd about it, but I think it’s really interesting. I don’t like all the ads which is why I put a four star review but otherwise great podcast!!!

Terrific podcast giving a detailed brief on a science related subject every day and encouraging female involvement in male dominated fields

The recent episodes sound like a bunch of silly, affected girls. Way too much ridiculous, she speak. Come on girly girly gals, it’s a science podcast, not a bachelorette party.

The hosts can be annoying and one of the hosts says like as every other word. Like stop saying like Besides the hosts interesting topics and guests

Gah the upspeak! The overproduction! The pointless commentary. Unlistenable.

I would recommend this podcast it is short and funny and really interesting. This podcast has guest that are smart and funny and they keep us up to date with what’s happening in the world. This podcast is really good, funny, and it also gives us interesting facts about the topics they are talking about.

Overall, this podcast is really educational for how short every episode is. I found it really easy to put it on while I was busy doing something else. My only complaint has to be the three ads that are in every episode. It takes away from the already short run time from the podcast, especially when it’s inserted into the middle of something really interesting.

Overall, I believe that this podcast is light-hearted and educational. I enjoyed listening to their space-related episodes because they were very informational. The only criticism I have, however, is the ridiculous amount of ads at the beginning, middle, and end of each episode. Unfortunately, the ads take away from each episode’s overall runtime, which is already short itself, and content value.

Overall the podcast is good if you love learning about random science facts and facts that could be useful or are fun to know.

This podcast is very well produced with very good content, an approachable take to said subjects , and a good cast of hosts. There are very few issues with this podcast but the elephant in the room is the frequency at which ads pop up. But the quality of the content makes up for the ad to content ratio.

The “Short Wave” podcast, in general, exemplifies the art of gaslighting rather than offering genuine insights. Across various episodes, the podcast tends to present information in a way that manipulates and confuses its audience rather than providing clear, evidence-based analysis.

Love the informative topics and the bite-sized episodes. However, there are too many ads for how short the show is. 2-3 ad breaks for a 15 minute show is too many ads.

On 2/2/24, smooth d tickle really took time to publicly whine about this show. 🤣 The term snowflake seems ironically perfect for this guy. Great show!! You know you’re doing something right if smooth d tickle can’t handle it.

Thanks, Regina, Emily, et al. Keep up the great work!

The Folks they interview are so thoughtful, interesting and knowledgeable. Short Wave-Plus is one of my most favorite podcasts. I listen to it every day during the week.

I’ve been a member of my local public radio for decades, and the fact that this podcast has a significantly lower content-to-ad ratio than the for-profit podcasts I listen to is insulting. Why did I donate all these years to get more advertising in your podcast than anywhere rlse? And on top of it, it seems like every other week that subscription only episodes show up in my feed and stay there as if the non subscription version was forgotten. No, I’m not paying a monthly fee to individual shows as a public radio member. I gave you plenty of money already. I get times are tough but to hear NPR shilling for energy companies, reading their greenwashing messages and helping them blame the consumer is sickening. Or plugging for online therapy companies who got caught (and fined a pittance for) sharing patient data with advertisers. Sickening. Strip away the ads (oops, “sponsor messages”) and fix the chronic “we forgot to release the non-subscription version” issues, and you have a somewhat decent podcast that has improved a bit lately by focusing a bit more on the science and a bit less on the storytelling without eliminating it. But I probably should just unsubscribe (and cancel my membership) and save the frustration.

The content is excellent, but the hosts sound like school teachers working hard to get a bunch of middle school kids excited about science. I really hate that researchers are always described as “nerds” about their subject. It sounds so juvenile. Are you going to call oncologists “cancer nerds”? Know your audience. If someone is listening to this podcast, they are likely already interested in science. You don’t have to work so hard to be enthusiastic.

Good hosts, interesting topics, & knowledgeable guests. Unfortunately it’s hard to hear them speaking with the overpowering “background” music & unnecessary sound effects. It used to be added to just the intro/end (which is fine) but now there’s music pretty much the whole time. This overproduction has made one of my favorite podcasts unlistenable

I am really disappointed by these women being sexist and racist against men and whites. Also, the content stinks.

When was their ever easiest and sexiest comments I’ve been listening for several years now and have not heard one. Great podcast! Don’t listen to the negative reviews!

I find it interesting you chose to renew an episode from March of 2022 today about - who would be affected most by overturning Roe - I am a democrat, but y’all be stirring up controversial topics at opportunistic times.

Simple and infantile ideas presented as a big deal.

I disagree with a recent comment I read. Maddie and Emily are great. I am not really a fan of Aaron Scott. I'm sure he is a brilliant human but he acts as if he is completely lost and aloof and it is unbecoming. Used to be my daily go to. Now I just skip.

Ever since the show got rid of Maddie and Emily, the show’s quality has increased 10 fold. It’s still lighthearted and fun without coming off as immature or annoying. Love my little daily dose of science!

This show serves up such interesting bits of science news that you otherwise wouldn’t hear about. It can also offer practical insights. With all the doom and gloom out there, this show does wonders to restore my faith in the future and humanity.

You gotta admire one thing about NPR over any other news source. affirming today’s victims with Yesterdays history

This is an awesome podcast! Recommend for all ages.

I used to love this podcast, but over the last few years I’ve noticed that they insert political views about race and gender in nearly every episode. These are certainly valid topics to talk about, but it feels very forced and detracts from the actual science. For example, in the latest episode “What is Math?” they go from talking about what imaginary numbers are straight into talking about how math was historically dominated by “European white men”. A good few minutes were spent on that topic instead of talking about how cool math is. Why is that necessary in a science podcast?

Interesting enough, but rarely covers physics and almost never covers chemistry or geology. After years of listening to it, the openly racist and sexist comments have, however, warn me down.

I just subscribed to Short Wave podcast today 8/3/23 & listened to my first episode (a review on the Oppenheimer movie 🎥) which I enjoyed immensely. My disappointment stems from my expectation (probably miss informed) that the annual subscription was add free. The episode was 12 minutes, of which approximately 2 were consumed by “contributing supporter’s” commercial ads. Need I say more?

I really want to love this podcast. I find the subjects and information fascinating, but I find myself frustrated for the first few minutes of every episode wanting to get to the substance. I sincerely wish these were edited down — remove some of the filler back and forth and long introductions and jump right in. I’m not opposed to some personality and liveliness but I find the episodes can be tedious to get to the meat or point. It’s starting to get under my skin. Hook me right away with a deep dive into the science, take out some of the filler commentary that can linger. Please!! Consider tightening the format to a more bite sized immersion and let the fun come through naturally. I will love you, and I know I can’t be alone. I sincerely want to be obsessed with you.

I absolutely hate that they never mark the episodes that are repeated. I don’t have have an issue with them repeating episodes, but I’d like to know if the one in my feed is one I’ve heard before. I don’t know how many times I’ve been listening to an episode & think that I’ve heard it before. I do a quick search & find that I have. Every other podcast that I listen to will mark their repeat episodes except the his one. How hard is it to put the word “repeat” in the episode title or description? Considering they even change the names of the repeated episodes it makes me think that they are trying to pass off their repeats as new content.

Digestible for all. This is my absolute #1 favorite podcast, I’ve been listening for a long time. As we are in the midst of a solar flare I’m thankful for learning about them here. It’s been haunting me since I heard the episode lol. Thankful I have learn about real life events and phenomena through Short Wave so I have a slightly better understanding of things around me to the universe. Everyone should listen to this, love you guys and what you’re doing! Such valuable stuff!